From 14318efb322e2fe1a034c69463d725209eb9d548 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Herring Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:39:54 +0100 Subject: ARM: 7587/1: implement optimized percpu variable access Use the previously unused TPIDRPRW register to store percpu offsets. TPIDRPRW is only accessible in PL1, so it can only be used in the kernel. This replaces 2 loads with a mrc instruction for each percpu variable access. With hackbench, the performance improvement is 1.4% on Cortex-A9 (highbank). Taking an average of 30 runs of "hackbench -l 1000" yields: Before: 6.2191 After: 6.1348 Will Deacon reported similar delta on v6 with 11MPCore. The asm "memory clobber" are needed here to ensure the percpu offset gets reloaded. Testing by Will found that this would not happen in __schedule() which is a bit of a special case as preemption is disabled but the execution can move cores. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Acked-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild') diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild index f70ae175a3d6..2ffdaacd461c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ generic-y += local64.h generic-y += msgbuf.h generic-y += param.h generic-y += parport.h -generic-y += percpu.h generic-y += poll.h generic-y += resource.h generic-y += sections.h -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b